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Your House Has a History COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS YOUR HOUSE HAS A HISTORY A Step-by-Step Guide to Researching Your Property CITY OF CHICAGO Richard M. Daley, Mayor Department of Planning and Development Alicia Mazur Berg, Commissioner YOUR HOUSE HAS A HISTORY You own a lovely home that you're proud to call your own. But someone owned it before you. Someone built it, cared for it, and made changes through the years to it. And now you're interested in finding out the "who, when and what" of your property. Researching your house can be fun, fascinating and completely engrossing. This pamphlet will help you begin, offering advice on how to identify basic information about your house and your neighborhood. It is designed to take you systematically through the process. Using the sources discussed here, you can identify: the date your house was built, if an architect is associated with its design, who had it built, and the changes that have been made to it over the years. Be sure to read the appendix as well, where detailed information on resources can be found. However, beware! Research can become addictive. It can also be frustrating. You may exhaust every source possible and still not find the answers to your questions. But no matter how many questions remain unanswered, you will have unearthed some interesting information, learned a little more about your community, and become familiar with some important public institutions in the city. So, have fun, and good luck. TIP: Getting Started To best organize your time while conducting this research, read through this pamphlet and identify all the resources you want to consult while at a particular library or historical society. We suggest that you first locate a copy of your building permit (see page 4). Once you have located this, more information - on a wider variety of topics - can be found at the Chicago Historical Society. But there are many other research resources available to you. Abbreviations used in this pamphlet refer to: CHS The Chicago Historical Society CPL Chicago Public Library UIC University of Illinois at Chicago AIC Art Institute of Chicago CCL Commission on Chicago Landmarks 2 YOUR HOUSE HAS A HISTORY Some common styles in What you need to know to begin Chicago and their most distinctive features Before you launch your research, it would be good to have a general idea Front Gable or Worker's Cottage of your house's style and the approximate date of its construction. (beginning 1870s) - narrow house, steep roof, off-center front door If your house is newly purchased, the real estate listing undoubtedly had Romanesque Revival (1880-1900)- large arched openings, masonry a date typed into the appropriate box. While you shouldn't assume that this walls, towers with conical roofs, date is correct, it may help get you started. asymmetrical façade Italianate (1860-1900) - widely The architectural style of your house can also provide you with clues to its overhanging eaves, decorative approximate age so you know where to begin your research. There are many brackets, tall, narrow arched windows books available to help you formulate an intelligent guess as to style and date. Some good stylebooks are: Queen Anne (1880s-1990) - steep roof usually with a prominent gable, porches, variety of building A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia and Lee McAlester (1984) materials American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles, Marcus Whiffen Prairie (early 1900s)- low pitched hipped roof, wide overhanging (1974) eaves, horizontal detailing The American House, Mary Mix Foley (1980) Bungalow (early 1900s)-low pitched roof, wide eaves, brick A Field Guide to American Architecture, Carole Rifkind (1993) walls, and bay window with art glass Identifying American Architecture, John J.G. Blumenson (1977) American Four-Square (1900- What Style is It? A Guide to American Architecture, John C. Poppliers, 1930)- cube shape, hipped roof, broad front porch, little ornament S. Allen Chambers, Jr., and Nancy B. Schwartz (1983) Colonial Revival (1880-1955)- cube shape, gabled roof, symmetrical, prominent front door Worker’s Cottage Queen Anne American Four-Square TIP: Dating Architectural Styles Most new styles in architecture were first seen on the East Coast. In A Field Guide to American Houses, for instance, the Italianate Style is dated as early as 1850, although it didn't become popular in Chicago until the 1870's. 3 COMMISSION ON CHICAGO LANDMARKS Commission on Step One Chicago Landmarks Checking the Chicago Historic Resources Survey 33 N. LaSalle St., Suite 1600 (312) 744-3200 The very first place to look for information on your house is in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey. A copy of this book is in every branch of the Chicago Each Tuesday has been set aside Public Library and can also be viewed at the Commission on Chicago Landmarks as the Commission's open research day. The commission's office. An electronic version of the survey is available on the City of Chicago's reports on historic buildings and website at: http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/CHRS.html. If the survey neighborhoods are also available lists the date and architect for your building, you're in luck. That means a permit here for a small fee. was found by Commission researchers and additional information may be on file in the Commission Offices. TIP: Before Moving On To Step Two If your house is not listed in the survey, you'll need to locate the building permit yourself (Step Two). While this can be quite simple, it can also be challenging. Persevere however, as the information gained will be well worth the effort. Chicago Historic Step Two Resources Survey Finding a copy of the building permit filed when your house was constructed In 1996, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, published Looking up the permit granted when your house was built will provide you the Chicago Historic Resources with the date of application (usually within a few weeks of the beginning of Survey, a listing of over 17,000 construction) and may offer information on the names of the owner, builder, and city structures that are of architect, the building dimension, type of construction and legal description of the national, state or local property. Cost of construction may also be included, but may have been understated architectural or historical to keep the cost of the permit down. significance. Street addresses, architects (if known), date(s) of Copies of historic building permits are available in the Documents and construction, building styles and Maps Department at Daley Library at the University of Illinois of Chicago (UIC) types, Permanent Real Estate or in the city's Freedom of Information Office, Department of Buildings in City Index Numbers (or "PIN," the Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St. (see next page). identification numbers that Cook County and the City of For ease of access, we suggest that you first try the UIC library. However, if Chicago use to keep track of land your house was built after June 1954, they will not have a copy of your permit and parcels) and Form Numbers you must go to the Freedom of Information Office. (tracking for research information in the Commission If you are requesting a copy of a permit through the Department of Buildings offices) are all included and you must complete a City of Chicago Department of Buildings Customer Service indexed for easy identification. Request Form. This form is available in the Freedom of Information Office, or The Historic Resources Survey it can be downloaded as a PDF file from: may be viewed in any of the http://www.cityofchicago.org/buildings/Forms/index.html. The Freedom of Chicago Public Library branches, Information Office is a division of the Department of Buildings and retrieves local historical societies or in building permit records for the general public. Once you have filled out the the Commission offices. form, your request will be processed by the department staff within seven working days after its receipt. If you are doing your research at UIC, looking up your permit is a two- stage process: First Look up your address (alphabetically by street name and then number) in the Address Index Card File. This will tell you in which ledger book 4 YOUR HOUSE HAS A HISTORY your address can be found. The book number follows a bold-faced N or University of Illinois at W or S, depending on the section of the city; the number is also right Chicago Library before PAGE. The book number approximately correlates to the year of 801 S. Morgan St. the permit. If a second address is noted on the index card, copy that one Documents & Maps Dept. as well. This is the address used prior to street renumbering in 1909. and Special Collections Second both on 3rd floor Look up the building permit for your house in the appropriate ledger (312) 996-2738, Documents book as indicated on the address index card. and Maps NOTE: Most of the time you'll be dealing with microfilm for one or both of (312) 996-2742, Special these steps. Collections The library is in the middle of the campus. The closest CTA stop is "Halsted" on the Blue Line. address of property Library hours are: Mon-Thurs., type of building 7:30AM-10 PM; Fri., 7:30AM-7PM; permit number and Sat., 10AM-5PM; Sun., 1-9PM page in ledger book Note: Special Collections has more restricted hours and library hours file number and date change with the academic year, of application call or consult the UIC website to (construction usually began within a few weeks confirm hours. of the date shown) The Documents Department is on the third floor, to the south of the elevators and stairwell.
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